scholarly journals Self-assessment of the quality of life of children and adolescents in the child welfare system of Serbia

2012 ◽  
Vol 69 (6) ◽  
pp. 469-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maja Damnjanovic ◽  
Aneta Lakic ◽  
Dejan Stevanovic ◽  
Ana Jovanovic ◽  
Jasna Jancic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Foster Care ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
General Population ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Child Welfare System ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Care Group

Background/Aim. Children and adolescents who enter a child welfare system are at higher risk of suffering from mental disorders, physical health, and/or social and educational problems than the general population of the same age is. This study was organized with the aim to evaluate the general characteristics of quality of life (QOL) in children and adolescents living in residential and foster care in Serbia. Methods. Two hundred and sixteen children and adolescents, aged 8-18 years, from residential and foster care and 238 children and adolescents from the general population participated in the study. QOL was assessed using the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL) - Serbian version. Three groups were created: residential care group (RCG), foster care group (FCG), and control group (children and adolescents from biological families - CG). Descriptive data were calculated for all questionnaires? scores, while t-test and ANOVA were used to compare them. Results. The mean value of the total PedsQL was lower in the RCG, 67.47 ? 17.75, than in the FCG and the CG, 88.33 ? 11.27 and 80.74 ? 11.23, respectively. Additionally, the RCG reported lower all PedsQL Scale scores, but the lowest value was for the psychosocial domain. These differences were statistically significant (F value ranged from 17.3 to 49.89, p < 0.000). However, only the scores of the RCG were statistically different from the FCG and the CG, while the differences between the FCG and the CG were statistically insignificant (p > 0.05). Conclusion. Children and adolescents living in residential care have significantly poorer QOL than those living in foster care or in biological families. On the other side, QOL in children and adolescents from foster care is similar to the one of those living in biological families.

The Centrality of Child Maltreatment to Criminology

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah A. Font ◽  
Reeve Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
Child Welfare System ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Sufficient Evidence ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
Crime And Delinquency ◽  
Comprehensive Measurement

Despite sufficient evidence to conclude that maltreatment exposure affects the risk of crime and delinquency, we conclude that the magnitude and specificity of effects of child maltreatment on crime and delinquency and the mechanisms through which those effects operate remain poorly identified. Key challenges include insufficient attention to the overlap of child maltreatment with various forms of family dysfunction and adversity and a lack of comprehensive measurement of the multiple, often comorbid, forms of child maltreatment. We then consider the potential impacts of the child welfare system on the maltreatment–crime link. Because the child welfare system typically provides voluntary, short-term services of unknown quality, it likely neither increases nor reduces risks of delinquency and crime for most children who are referred or investigated. For the comparatively small (although nominally large and important) subset of children experiencing foster care, impacts on delinquency and crime likely vary by the quality of environments within and after their time in care—issues that, to date, have received too little attention. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Criminology, Volume 5 is January 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

Children and adolescents with cerebral palsy have reliable knowledge about their own condition - Self- and parent reported quality of life

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melinda Fejes ◽  
Varga Beatrix ◽  
Hollody Katalin
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Cerebral Palsy ◽  
General Population ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Home Life ◽  
European Values ◽  
Reliable Knowledge ◽  
Parent Relation

Abstract Background: to assess health related quality of life (HRQoL) of children (8–12 years) and adolescents (13–18 years) with cerebral palsy (CP) and to compare it with age-matched healthy control children from the general population (GP). Methods: prospective cohort study. HRQoL was self-reported by KIDSCREEN questionnaires. 99 families with children with CP and 237 children from the GP and their parents were enrolled. Collected data were evaluated and compared to each other across all dimensions of KIDSCREEN: European values compared to our GP’ groups, scores of children with CP and of their parents with general population groups (both children and parents); parents’ reports with childrens’,child and adolescent reports, age, sex, special features of CP on HRQoL. Results: patients with CP and their parents rated their HRQoL as poorer than their GP counterparts did, except for the parent relation/home life and social support/peers dimensions. Reports given by children and their parents were correlated. Children and adolescents had similar scores. Assessments of children and their parents were in a medium-strong positive relationship regarding psychological well-being, moods/emotions, self-perception, autonomy, parent relation/home life dimensions (0.552

Trauma and Children

2020 ◽  
pp. 168-187
Author(s):  
David R. Grove ◽  
Gilbert J. Greene ◽  
Mo Yee Lee
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Foster Care ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Child Welfare System ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Trauma Survivors ◽  
Duration Of Stay ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Family Approach ◽  
Biological Family

Trauma and children placed in foster care is examined. Statistics related to foster care placement, duration of stay, and number of disrupted placements are offered. How these factors exacerbate the problems of trauma survivors in the child welfare system is explored. A family to family approach is described. Several case examples are offered covering numerous treatment issues including how to stabilize at-risk foster placements, how to recruit and include biological family of children placed in foster care, and how to enlist therapeutic help from biological family members when their child is placed in foster care.

scholarly journals Suicide and suicide attempts in children and adolescents in the child welfare system

2011 ◽  
Vol 183 (17) ◽  
pp. 1977-1981 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Y. Katz ◽  
W. Au ◽  
D. Singal ◽  
M. Brownell ◽  
N. Roos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Child Welfare System ◽  
Welfare System
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